A girl born deaf. A young man with severe diabetes. They were not even alive when a deadly cloud of chemicals escaped from the Union Carbide plant. But the suffering goes on. Andrew Buncombe in the Independent:
She has no proof. She cannot know for sure. But when Niello Far’s daughter was born deaf, she immediately suspected what might have been the cause. “Everybody believes it was the gas. Others have told me it is because of the gas,” said the young mother, making sign language to her four-year-old, Zoba. “The doctor has told me that it may be, that it might be the gas.”
When people in Bhopal talk of the gas they are referring to the 40 tonnes of toxic chemicals that poured into the sky from an insecticide factory in the early hours of 3 December 1984, wreaking deadly havoc.
Up to 8,000 people died in the immediate aftermath, perhaps two and half times that in the subsequent months. But now, almost a quarter-century after the world’s worst industrial accident, campaigners are fighting to help a “second generation” of suffering Bhopalis who they say are victims of contaminated water and political and corporate neglect.
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